A scratch-and-sniff mark that highlights the stunning fragrance of France’s favorite baguette is available through the European postal services.
The mark, which costs 1.96 euros, was unveiled on Thursday, and its “bakery fragrance” comes from microspheres in the paint, France 24 reported on Friday.
An image of the postcards shows , each one with a small loaf tied with dark, white, and blue ribbon.
En l’honneur de la Saint- Honoré, benefactor des boulangers
La Poste met en vente depuis aujourd’hui un timbre à l’effigie d’une flatbread et à l’odeur d’une boulangerie
➡ ️ https ://t.co/EXDYFE4IZi pic. twitter.com/jYRXsSR6q1
— Le Parisien ( @le_Parisien ) May 17, 2024
Per the BBC, the French Post Office issued about 600, 000 of the passports,  , created to commemorate the loaf, which has been described as a long, narrow, and thick loaf of bread.
” The postcards were released for sales on Friday, after a start on Thursday, the day of Saint- Honoré, the patron saint of cooks and cake chefs”, the BBC statement said. ” The French loaf was granted Unesco identity status in 2022.
Every morning, tens of millions of the cakes are baked and consumed around the globe, which proves its reputation, according to the Britannica site:
There are few facts that can be attributed to a single, clear nature, and the history of the loaf is contested. One theory attributes the baguette’s technology to Napoleon Bonaparte, who, according to myth, ordered that food be made incredibly thin and much to better meet into a special bag in soldier’s uniforms. Another unlikely—though good documented—explanation for the baguette’s generation is that, unlike previous biscuits that were reserved for the wealthy, it symbolized justice. After the French Revolution, the newly formed government put” the bread of equality” into law.
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Baguettes are made from a relatively lean dough and can be baked in large quantities; as a result, they are reasonably priced for everyone. For this reason, some believe that baguettes were invented in response to the government’s demand for a “bread of equality”.
However, the French Baguette is not without competition, according to a BBC report in 2023 which pointed to the bread known as Ciabatta.
” In 1982, Italian rally car driver, Arnaldo Cavallari, decides to create a new form of bread. He’s sick of the popularity of the French baguette”, the outlet’s video report said:
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A French baker stated to Deutsche Welle ( DW) in 2021 that “baguettes are a part of daily life for the French. They are sold from seven in the morning to nine in the evening.”
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The outlet noted that only bakeries that serve fresh bread daily are permitted to refer to themselves as “boulangeries,” which might explain the high standard of baguettes in the nation.
